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Article #473Re: Forging E-mail from root to get users to change passwords
From: Rob J. Nauta
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 15:39
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 15:39
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ifbb657@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Douglas Floyd) writes: >How common is this attack? [attack deleted] Quite common among novice crackers/troublemakers. It is however almost never succesfull, very obvious and also quite annoying. >What is the best way to prevent/slow down this form of attack? Educate your users to pick good passwords, tell them not to tell them to anyone, especially not to people claiming to be the admin and needing their passwords 'for system maintenance'. Rob -- /-----------------------------------------------\ Never ,==. | Rob J. Nauta, UNIX computer security expert. | Apologize, /@ | | rob@wzv.win.tue.nl, Phone: +31-40-837549 | Never /_ < | Feel free to email me for free advice | Explain. =" `g'
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!gmd.de!Germany.EU.net!mcsun!sun4nl!tuegate.tue.nl!svin09!wzv!rob From: rob@wzv.win.tue.nl (Rob J. Nauta) Newsgroups: comp.security.misc Subject: Re: Forging E-mail from root to get users to change passwords Message-ID: <4073@wzv.win.tue.nl> Date: 6 Nov 92 15:39:20 GMT References: <82930@ut-emx.uucp> Organization: None Lines: 21